While the political left wails about another act of Trump tyranny, the real infringement has gone unreported and practically unnoticed. CNN, MSNOW, and Politico sued to regain their campus access rights to the White House. There’s no such thing, but a judge has already ordered that they be allowed back.
The nation is filled with judges who have less of a clue about what is and is not constitutional than a soap dish. Many of them are DEI hires elevated from local DA or AG offices where the Constitution was a barrier to prosecution. These are the goons who let career criminals walk free so they can kill; listen to the voices telling them to kill white girls on public transportation.
They threaten the republic, but the left loves their rulings, and the noise from the haters has yet to diminish. Trump is anti-free speech and the First Amendment. We covered this already. The most accessible chief executive, and there is no Constitutional right to report from the White House.
The judge is wrong. They inevitably would lose on appeal, but the points have been scored and won’t come off the board before the midterms.
No one’s rights were violated in that instance, but someone else’s were.
The real infringement on the First Amendment occurred as Democratic politicians sought to block a media merger because they feared that the one company gobbling up the other might result in less favorable news coverage toward their party. On Monday, 12 Democrats — the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington — dropped their litigation against Paramount Skydance. In exchange for the Democrat law enforcers letting it purchase Warner Bros., the media giant agreed to, among other stipulations, allow an Orwellian “editorial independence board” to hover over both CNN and CBS.
Why must a private company include a board that operates independently from it, even with members appointed by its executives, to dictate the “independence” of the news and editorials it produces?
The so-called independent board demanded by the Blue State Attorneys General is a government act of force to “manage” content disputes.
The agreement empowers the board to adjudicate “any disputes between CBS News employees, CNN employees, and management of the Combined Entity regarding alleged reporting bias or failure to meet agreed reporting fairness standards” and inspect “adherence to ethical journalism as defined by journalism industry best practices and to editorial independence, including from the Combined Entity’s ownership and shareholders.”
We can assume that the AGs or other third parties (expensive private law firms) will monitor disagreements between management and “journalists” as often as needed to “ensure favorable news coverage.”
But this is not government infringement of the media companies’ First Amendment rights.
The moment leftists see their grip [on journalism] slipping to something below 95 percent, they sic the powerful upon the press. The 12 attorneys general who forced an “editorial independence board” on ostensibly private press organizations highlight their obsession not with freedom of the press but with control of it.
Boom!
